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⌚️Watch Emoji

⌚️ is the watch emoji, U+231A U+FE0F, one of 31 in the Time set. It arrived with Unicode 6.0 (2010) and is commonly used for clock, time.

What ⌚️ watch means

Twenty-four of these characters are clock faces — every hour and every half-hour — and hardly anyone uses them to state a time; the half-past set arrived in Unicode 7.0. What people actually reach for is ⏳ and ⌛ for waiting, ⏰ for a deadline or a wake-up, and ⏱️ for speed. The clock faces mostly decorate.

Unicode tags this one clock, time and files it under Travel & Places → Time.

Copy variants

watch carries a variation selector (U+FE0F) that forces colour rendering. Drop it and the same character renders as monochrome text.

Shortcodes

Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.

How ⌚️ is built

This emoji is more than one codepoint. Each part below is a character in its own right.

⌚U+231Awatch
·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+231A U+FE0F`
HTML hex	`⌚️`
HTML decimal	`⌚️`
CSS	`\231A\FE0F`
JavaScript	`\u{231A}\u{FE0F}`
Python	`\U0000231A\U0000FE0F`
Java / C#	`\u231A\uFE0F`
Rust	`\u{231a}\u{fe0f}`
Swift	`\u{231A}\u{FE0F}`
PHP	`\u{231A}\u{FE0F}`
URL encoded	`%E2%8C%9A%EF%B8%8F`
UTF-8 bytes	`E2 8C 9A EF B8 8F`
UTF-16 bytes	`231A FE0F`
Base64	`4oya77iP`
Decimal	`8986 65039`
Introduced	Unicode 6.0 (2010)

Keywords

Appears in these collections

How to type ⌚️

Windows — press Win + . and search “watch”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “clock”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 231a and Enter.
HTML — paste ⌚️.

How ⌚️ renders

The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.

⌚️Apple
⌚️Segoe
⌚️Noto
⌚️System

Frequently asked questions

What does the ⌚️ watch emoji mean?+

⌚️ is the watch emoji, tagged clock, time. Twenty-four of these characters are clock faces — every hour and every half-hour — and hardly anyone uses them to state a time; the half-past set arrived in Unicode 7.0. What people actually reach for is ⏳ and ⌛ for waiting, ⏰ for a deadline or a wake-up, and ⏱️ for speed. The clock faces mostly decorate.

What is the Unicode code for ⌚️?+

watch is U+231A U+FE0F. In HTML that is ⌚️, in CSS \231A\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{231A}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the ⌚️ emoji added?+

watch got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.

Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as ⌚️ watch.